Portable stoves

Abstract

A portable stove of the type fuelled from a replaceable pressurized combustible gas cartridge which is secured inside a cover member supporting a burner head and having means for connecting the burner head to the replaceable cartridge. A pair of covers, which telescopically fit one into the other have the dual function of serving separately as saucepans or in co-operation as an expandible housing for storing the stove, the covers being selectively telescopable to relatively greater or lesser extents, respectively to store the stove assembled or alternatively disassembled. The stove has arms which are shaped so as to provide, when the arms are extended, upstanding portions which are inscribed in a circle whose diameter is greater than the external diameters of the covers.

What I claim is: 
     
       1. A portable cooking apparatus fueled from a replaceable and pierceable combustible gas cartridge, comprising: a dismountable stove for attachment to said cartridge, comprising: a cover member shaped to receive said gas cartridge and means for securing said cartridge to said cover member,   a burner head,   an intermediate connecting element incorporating a cock, securable to said burner head and on said cover member, and having an element for connecting said burner head to said cartridge,   support arms for holding a sauce-pan above the burner head;     two pans respectively supportable above the burner head and serving as saucepans when the stove is in use, and within which the stove when not in use is storable, said pans being capable of telescoping one within the other with one facing the other, and the pans being shaped so that they comprise storage means telescopable from a relatively lower height inactive position wherein the cover member, burner head and connecting element are dismantled from one another and nested one within another and in the two pans, and telescopable to a relatively higher height active position wherein the cover member, burner head and connecting element are fitted to one another and to a cartridge, and nested in the two pans.   
     
     
       2. A cooking apparatus according to claim 1, wherein a dished member is fixed to the burner head, and in the inactive position the connecting element is laid flat in the upside down cover member, while said dished member is nested in same upside down cover member. 
     
     
       3. A cooking apparatus according to claim 1, wherein the free ends of the support arms have a diameter larger than the external diameter of either pan.